Depression is no longer a special disease in people's mouth, because people are under great pressure nowadays, they may be suddenly suffering from depression, or they may be due to the long-term accumulated pressure and too much sadness, which leads to slowly falling into depression.
Everyone may suffer from depression. Depressed patients should undergo regular treatment in early stages so that they can get rid of difficulties and bring you a new life.
Depression: Just like a cold!
Depression has been increasingly frequent in the public's vision in recent years. Many people do not understand why they suffer from depression? Depression is simply too fragile and too pretentious, but it just can't bear a little pressure, but the data shows that depression is as common as a cold.
According to statistics, globally, the number of patients with depression increased by 28% in 2020. The situation in my country is not optimistic. There are as many as 95 million patients with depression, of which 6.8% have been sick for life, and there is no way to cure the cause, but the consequences of the aggravation of the condition are very serious.
Causes of depression:
. Family Genetics: Depression is closely related to genetics. People with a family history of depression have a much higher proportion of children suffering from depression than ordinary people.
. Bad habits: improper use of drugs, abuse, alcoholism, and want to use certain bad habits to relieve emotional loneliness and helplessness. Little do they know that these are the malignant factors that aggravate depression.
. Disease torture: There are many patients who have been suffering from certain diseases for a long time, such as cerebral thrombosis, heart disease, Alzheimer's , diabetes , etc. There are many patients who have developed depression due to the torture of the body by diseases.
. Character driven; personality causes are one of the important factors that cause depression. People with introvert, cautious, pessimistic, stubborn, and sensitive personalities are far higher than those of other personality groups in the proportion of depression.
Most people with depression tend to have 6 catchphrases. If you have one around you, don’t think it’s a joke
Li Yichen, deputy chief physician of Wuhan Mental Health Center, introduced that the early symptoms of depression are prone to minor things and will get angry, and you will not be interested in anything, and it will even be accompanied by insomnia and dreams. Some people will also overeat, and even go on extreme dieting.
Depression is not without any signs. A person suffering from depression will often keep the following six catchphrases on his lips. If you have a friend around you, you must comfort and enlighten him. If necessary, take him to the hospital for relevant examinations. Don’t think it’s a joke.
- "I feel helpless"
- "I only have despair left in my life"
- "No matter what happens, I don't care"
- "Everything is my fault"
- "I'm really useless"
- "I think if I'm away, it's good for everyone"
Can depression "heal itself"?
From a certain perspective, depression is a "self-limiting disease", just like a cold, it will get better if it is not cured. So, can depression really heal itself
For this problem, foreign studies have statistics that if you suffer from depression, the result will be: 30% (mild cases) will naturally return to normal, which will take about 6 to 12 months (it is the "natural course" of depression).
0% will be repeated and dragged into chronic. Lin Daiyu is actually chronic depression. The depression is mild and heavy, and I can’t be happy even if I am old (called “ bad mood ” in psychiatry); the other 30% (serious cases) will go to a dead end, such as well-known figures such as Leslie Cheung , Sanmao , etc., embark on the road of suicide. Treatment methods such as
can change the symptoms and take effect in about 1 month, and the patient will no longer be depressed. However, these treatments cannot change the natural course of depression. In other words, you have to wait for it to repair it yourself; if the medication is stopped too early, it will rekindle and depression will appear again.
clinically advocated that patients with depression should take the medicine for at least 6 months. And generally speaking, 50% of patients will not be recurred in this life after the depression is cured. That is to say, 50% of patients will only be recurred once in their lifetime, and they will "cut off the root".
extension - How to treat depression?
. Drug treatment:
Drug treatment is the main treatment measure for moderate or above depressive attacks. For patients with obvious depression attacks with psychosocial stress factors, psychological treatment is often required while treating drugs.
treatment drugs for depression include new antidepressants, such as fluoxetine , paroxetine , sertraline, citalopram , fluvoxamine , escitalopram , mirtazapine, etc., as well as traditional antidepressants, including monoamine oxidase inhibitors.
For patients with depression who have social and psychological stress factors, psychological treatment is often required on the basis of drug treatment. Commonly used psychotherapy methods include supportive psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy, marriage and family therapy, psychodynamic therapy, etc.
. Physical therapy: includes improved electroconvulsive shock treatment, vagus nerve stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation and other methods, with the purpose of improving brain function and assisting drug treatment.
will also recommend patients to make frequent rehabilitation recommendations, such as reasonable diet, reasonable sleep, and frequent sunbathing. Studies have shown that depression is related to reduced sunshine. sunbathing is used abroad to treat depression. Let patients exercise more.
